I'm new to Sabayon, having just begun migrating my laptop from Gentoo.

Firstly, I had trouble installing the synaptics driver. The installation borked, telling me that no usable .config file was found in the kernel sources directory. Which, my Gentoo experience told me, was because the kernel sources weren't configured correctly. Under Gentoo I would fix this simply by doing

grep: /usr/src/linux/Makefile: No such file or diretorygrep: /Makefile: No such directoryERROR: Failed to compile the "mrproper" target...

I am quite familiar with compiling kernels on Gentoo and other distros, so this is leaving me quite confused. I have made sure that the appropriate sources are set with eselect and that the symlink /usr/src/linux points to the correct directory. I have tried with sabayon-sources and linux-sabayon-sources installed (both individually and together) but to no avail!

Could somebody please tell me what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something quite simple that I have overlooked. I've tried searching the forums but the only references I could find are in Italian (which stupid ignorant white boys like me can't read )

BTW - all software so far has been installed with equo. I haven't tried using emerge in this box yet!

Thanks,

Last edited by Audiossis on Tue Feb 09, 2010 13:17, edited 1 time in total.

It's difficult to post the entire output here as I'm using the desktop to make posts on the forum. I'm having the problem on the laptop where I haven't finished configuring the network devices.....

I agree that it is quite strange as genkernel has never let me down either (at least not on Gentoo). I've always found genkernel to be the easiest and most convenient way to compile a new kernel...... which is why I'd really like to to the bottom of this. I don't relish the idea of having to do it manually..... I find it quite tedious........

I'm using genkernel-3.4.10.906-r1.

This is a fresh install of Sabayon on a clevo laptop from the Sabayon_Linux_CoreCD_5.1_x86.iso cd install media.